Utah Jazz forward DeMarre Carroll entertained the crowd and conducted a clinic Tuesday evening at the St. George Recreation Center, St. George, Utah, June 25, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George News
ST. GEORGE — Utah Jazz star DeMarre Carroll entertained young fans Tuesday night at the St. George Recreation Center as part of the franchise’s yearly outreach visits to communities in Utah and Idaho.
Carroll a native of Birmingham, Ala., arrived was at ease in purple Jazz shorts and a Utah Jazz t-shirt as he joked with kids and talked about the game of basketball.
The informal clinic, which lasted about an hour, had Carroll and a Utah Jazz media relations man organize the youths into teams for various games and then a question and answer period.
St. George News photographer Chris Caldwell was there to capture the event.
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Utah Jazz forward DeMarre Carroll entertained the crowd and conducted a clinic Tuesday evening at the St. George Recreation Center, St. George, Utah, June 25, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George News
Utah Jazz forward DeMarre Carroll entertained the crowd and conducted a clinic Tuesday evening at the St. George Recreation Center, St. George, Utah, June 25, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George News
Utah Jazz forward DeMarre Carroll entertained the crowd and conducted a clinic Tuesday evening at the St. George Recreation Center, St. George, Utah, June 25, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George News
Utah Jazz forward DeMarre Carroll entertained the crowd and conducted a clinic Tuesday evening at the St. George Recreation Center, St. George, Utah, June 25, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George News
Utah Jazz forward DeMarre Carroll entertained the crowd and conducted a clinic Tuesday evening at the St. George Recreation Center, St. George, Utah, June 25, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George News
Utah Jazz forward DeMarre Carroll entertained the crowd and conducted a clinic Tuesday evening at the St. George Recreation Center, St. George, Utah, June 25, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George News
Utah Jazz forward DeMarre Carroll entertained the crowd and conducted a clinic Tuesday evening at the St. George Recreation Center, St. George, Utah, June 25, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George News
Utah Jazz forward DeMarre Carroll entertained the crowd and conducted a clinic Tuesday evening at the St. George Recreation Center, St. George, Utah, June 25, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George News
Utah Jazz forward DeMarre Carroll entertained the crowd and conducted a clinic Tuesday evening at the St. George Recreation Center, St. George, Utah, June 25, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George News
Utah Jazz forward DeMarre Carroll entertained the crowd and conducted a clinic Tuesday evening at the St. George Recreation Center, St. George, Utah, June 25, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George News
Utah Jazz forward DeMarre Carroll entertained the crowd and conducted a clinic Tuesday evening at the St. George Recreation Center, St. George, Utah, June 25, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George News
Utah Jazz forward DeMarre Carroll entertained the crowd and conducted a clinic Tuesday evening at the St. George Recreation Center, St. George, Utah, June 25, 2013 | Photo by Chris Caldwell, St. George News
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Andy Griffin has been in sports media since 1989 and has covered BYU, Utah State and the Utah Jazz as well as all sports in southern Utah. A journalism graduate of USU, Andy has carried on a dual career as both a sports writer and a sports broadcaster and has been heard around the country. He has also been published in USA Today, Sport magazine, The Sporting News, Fairways magazine, the Los Angeles Times and locally in the Deseret News, the Salt Lake Tribune and the Spectrum. Andy was “The Voice of Region 9 sports,” for many years. He also hosted a daily sports talk show for three years called AG in the a.m.
Andy has been married to his college sweetheart Shelly for 28 years and has five children ages 13 to 25.